On 09/03/2018 06:59 AM, Harri Salminen wrote:
Hi,
I'm the admin of the nic.funet.fi fedora and epel mirrors. Some user
tweeted a while ago that our Epel mirror served something in .xml
instead of compressed .xml claiming that it broke yum. On a closer look
my mirror seems to be in sync with the master mirror. There could be
some delay since I currently source the mirror via mirrorservice.uk
since heanet.ie had once repodata issues. Anyway, at least now my mirror
is same as the master, on Friday it was one version back and I increased
checks from three to five times a day. Even then I tried yum against it
and had no problems. Maybe there was some transient problem with the
repodata being rsynced while it was changing or something.
For epel, there is a uncompressed xml file: the comps file. It's also
provided as a gzipped file. The repodata setup started out with some
specific files, then has been slowly added to over the years in such a
way that new files are added, but old formats are never changed so very
old yum versions can get the data they need and newer ones can get more.
if it was the comps file they saw, thats normal.
Today I notice that there's one .bz2 file and another plain .xml
file.
Other sites seem to have those too. Is that intentional or some side
effect of something and is there need to do something about it?
It's just that its been added to over the years, some of the newer files
are bz2, some of the older ones are gz, etc. In order to fix that up, it
would need to break all existing yum versions, which is... not desireable.
kevin